I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Nuance (Bengaluru) in Sep 2020
Interview
The interview process was very long. It took 2 months and above from the initial call from recruiter to onboarding.
1st Round - Given a set of questions reg your skills and expertise, answer them and send it back
to the HR. If passed here, recruiter will forward your profile for further rounds.
2nd Round - Zoom interview with Technical Manager to discuss about technical skills and
expertise
3rd Round - Business Problem is shared and was asked to prepare the solution and mail it.
4th Round - Technical Interview on Python, SQL, Shell by Senior Technical Manager.
5th Round - Discussion on your proposed solution for the given business problem and questions on ML.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were asked on Python, SQL, Shell Scripting, Machine Learning and Flask.
Python - Oops concepts ( Abstraction, Encapsulation), File Reading and Data Processing, Data Serialization.
SQL - Joins, Group By, Filtering using WHERE and HAVING
Shell - word count, grep, piping
ML - Explain about a recent project that you have done and what algo's are used
Criterion used for measuring the result, different data processing techniques,
categorical data handling.
Extra - Any knowledge on Spark / Docker / Git / Azure.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Nuance (Turin) in Jul 2022
Interview
usual screening with HR, then technical interview, and onsite like interview approximately 4 h with live coding challenge. ending with offline homework (1 week time) - feedback was about 1 week after each step, getting proposal was little longer
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nuance (Aachen) in Mar 2016
Interview
Applied online, sent cv. After a phone interview followed by a home test, I went to aachen for a full day interview. Some of them are nice, but I did not give any concrete feedback after the interview, even upon request. I got the impression that they use more than they should the term "research" and "scientist".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
you are given a particular dictionary with recursive definition.
you have a test set of desired output of your software, and you have to write, pen to paper, an algorithm in 1 hour and half. They told me that they haven't been changing this question from years!
Sometimes questions were vague and not precise at all and I had to guess what people wanted to hear as answer.